This section covers posts that in general do not fit into other sections easily. They will mostly be made by admin on whatever I am adding at that moment, which is usually something to do with writing, publishing, websites, eating or Thailand, which is where I live :-)
A New Behind The Smile – BTS5 This is just a snippet of information for those of you have or are enjoying the ‘Behind The Smile’ series: I have started a fifth and am making good progress. I am not sure what to call it yet, but I am thinking of Stepping Stones’. It will …
Pattaya Beach By John Elray A Common Tale of Woe Told in an Uncommon Way Review by Owen Jones When I was given this book by it’s author because he had heard that I lived in Pattaya, it was two years ago, but little did he know that I was writing my own first novel …
Intellectual Property Theft We all know that intellectual property theft is a big problem, but most of us tend to think first of pirated DVD’s and Asia, or most likely China. I don’t know how fair this is, because for all I know it is a global problem which unscrupulous people in every country …
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This is my review of the Asus X54C laptop computer, which I have been using for the last 18 months. The Asus X54C has its pros and cons
The Disallowed A Story of Modern Vampires by Owen Jones More Addams Family than Trad Vlad Gothic Vampire Review by Barry Boy I can virtually guarantee that you have never read a book that purports to be about vampires like this one before! This story is not your Trad Vlad …
Real Modern Day Vampires ‘Are there real modern day vampires?’ It is one of those obscure questions that can be answered on many levels, with several eliciting the answer ‘yes’ and yet others the answer ‘no’. Why is that? There are people who think that they are vampires, or like to think that there …
The Megan Series A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger, and One Scary Mother! by Ceri Carpenter Review by Owen Jones I have read all eleven titles in the Megan Series so far, so I will review the series as a whole rather than just each individual book. The series opens with ‘The Misconception’, which …
Full Disclosure By Eric J. Gates Review by Owen Jones Full Disclosure is about the power that the state can wield to fool its citizens into believing anything that it pleases, whether for good or bad reasons. However, Eric J. Gates seems to give us hope that at least in this …
Are Vampires Real? Many people ask themselves: Are vampires real? You might think that it would be mostly children who would ask this question, but many adults wonder about it too. Many people think that the vampire legends started with Vlad the Impaler of the Dark Ages or Bram Stoker in the Victorian era, …
Kindle Fire HDX I wouldn’t say that I consciously resisted buying an e-reader, but I certainly didn’t rush into it either. However, I found a good reason for buying one last week and opted for the Kindle Fire HDX. I won’t bore you with the exact specifications, because you can get those anywhere, but …
Using hashtags (#) is a major way of letting readers search for content that they want to read. On other media, they are called keywords…
I don’t keep a diary as such, but I do like to record special days. June 23rd, 2014 is one such day for several reasons. Please read on…
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When I go off someone of something, that is the kiss of death for me. I doesn’t happen often at all, but it invariably final…
Pattaya – Fun or Sin City? Pattaya is a large seaside resort situated on the north-eastern side of the Gulf of Thailand. It is about 160 km from Bangkok or an hour’s taxi ride from the new Suvarnabhumi International Airport. It is said to be host to over 1,000,000 visitors every year and I would …
Bpom’s 100 Days Seven years ago, a neighbour’s dog, that we used to feed sometimes, got pregnant and so we started to feed her more as her owners were often at work. One day, Da, the dog, disappeared and it was only a month later that she came bounding into a shop where my wife …
Why Men Have Nipples When I was a boy of about seven or eight years of age, before I became far too self-conscious to enquire about such things, I asked my mother what the nipples on my chest were for. She looked at me for a moment, switched the vacuum cleaner off and said, …
Dead Centre When a bomb goes off in Scheherazade’s, a posh department store in Baghdad, leaving nearly 200 people dead or wounded, the authorities and the police think that it is just another routine case of it’s type and appoint Captain Ali Allawi of the National Police to head the investigation. He has no clues …
This is Read an e-Book Week! Hi Readers! I’ve got some great news for you. For one week only, I am heavily discounting my e-books at Smashwords for the annual ‘Read e-Books Week’. Coupon codes are on the site and you can get there by clicking the link below. 18 books, in several genres, heavily …
